At the beginning of October, most would have looked at this game
with a yawn. Georgia Tech had stumbled out of the gate with a 1-3
record while Georgia was coming off the heels of a National
Championship Game appearance at 4-0, outscoring those opponents
178-53.
Then, the Yellow Jackets somehow turned on the switch. They lost to Duke
courtesy of three straight fumbles. But, apart from that, they have
won their other six. Many of those have also been in dominating
fashion. 63-17 against Bowling Green. 66-31 at Louisville and 49-28
at Virginia Tech. And, last week, they took then 7-2 Virginia into
an overtime win.
The Bulldogs had a brief setback at LSU before righting the ship to be
well positioned at a #5 national ranking. With their second straight
SEC East Championship, they meet #1 Alabama for a rematch of the
last year's title game. Win that one and they'll easily slide up
into the top 4 and the college football playoffs. Some think that
they could even lose to Georgia Tech and still make the playoffs
with a followup win over the Crimson Tide.
Bulldogs fans might have a bit of consternation with short memories of
the last two times the Jackets were between the hedges. They won in
2016 and 2014, taking a few sprigs of those hedges with them.
This time, its an early noon kickoff with the game shown on the SEC
Network. Fans in Atlanta will have plenty of places to hear it with
the Dawgs broadcast on
WSB on 750am and 95.5fm and Tech's broadcast on 680 the fan and
93.3fm.